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Cake day: September 29th, 2025

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  • One time when I was early in my field (stationary engineering) I had a funny experience. It was a small boiler room so only one guy on shift at a time. I came in to relive the operator (60s guy retiring that year) and one of our computers was down. It was one we took hourly readings from for something not too important that we could get the same reading from elsewhere. So anyway, he tells me hes entered the password a dozen times and it just doesnt work. We had the password sticky noted to the monitor so I was skeptical. I noticed caps lock was on, turned it off, entered the password and signed right on. His response was “wow thats great. At least someone around here is good with computers”





  • Mental health facilities and systems losing funding is an absolute travesty. I still don’t believe the mental health side of these horrific crimes is a moot point though. With more dedication to early intervention and treatment a decline would have to happen. Its not the tools fault its the individual using it. Remember that guy who drove through a crowd a few Christmas back? He had a slew of mental health issues that were never addressed properly. He perpetrated a mass casualty event without issue. Almost half of mass shooters tell SOMEONE some part of their plan before carrying it out. If we did as many “warning signs” trainings as we do “active shooter” trainings I’d be willing to bet we’d prevent many of these incidents. I say this because even though I work in an isolated power plant, we have an annual online training and in person drill for active shooter situations (run,hide,fight). At the same time, I’ve never seen an early warning sign type training.